Book Review #1
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
This is one of my favorite books and is my absolute favorite classic. Ever. Period. Best one. Based in a small southern town in Alabama during 1935, this book covers courage, equality, and just doing the right thing in 324 pages of complete genius. Now, I am not really a classics kind of person. I tend to stick with the YA genres and generally find classics--I'm just going to say it--boring. So it's pretty big for me to completely love this book as much as I do. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is not usually a classic-reader.
The biggest thing about the book is that it pretty much leaves me speechless. I don't have any complaints about the book. I mean, even when it was slow, it was written so well it didn't matter. My absolute favorite thing about the book was its unique point of view. The narrator is a 9 year old girl. So think: if your dad was a lawyer and you were a little girl who only understood a little over half of what was going on and no one was treating each other nicely, what would you be thinking about? That was this whole book. Questioning things, coming to wrong conclusions, coming to conclusions no adult would thing of, and just wanting to do what you wanted to do right then.
It's not one of those books you can't put down; it's one of those books you have to put down just to absorb. Then you finish it and you have to take a deep breath and let it out really slowly. The next day you'll be thinking about it. And the next day. And the one after that. And the year after that. It's the kind of book that just clings to your brain.
My Rating: 5/5
(Keep in mind that I almost never rate books that highly!)
-Sarah Elisabeth
Enwhay ethay orldway opsstay inningspay... E'reway illstay eadingray.
(English: When the world stops spinning... We're still reading.)
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